Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov

MOSCOW, December 17. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian presidential envoy to the Middle East and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has met with a delegation of Syria’s opposition Kurdish Democratic Union Party headed by its leader Salih Muslim in Moscow to discuss the situation in Syria.

“They discussed the development of the situation in Syria and around it, including that in the context of preparation for an international peace conference Geneva II due on January 22,” the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.